What is creativity?
All my professional life, my coworkers have described me as creative. I always demurred because I have the drawing skills of a kindergartener, and I’m a math major for goodness sake! But when I discovered papercrafting I discovered that while I can’t draw or paint anything from scratch, I’m pretty good at taking existing things and making something special. It was then that I realized that the act of creating is something that I’m VERY good at and I was, in fact, doing it all the time at work. Give me a form, flyer, or process that needs to be (re)invented and...
Read MoreHow stamping saved me this past month
I’ve been thinking a lot the past few days about this post by Sarah Bush: Is Art Your Sactuary?. Sarah has really fantastic insights about creativity…how to find it, keep it going, and rediscover it if you’ve lost your mojo. Sarah’s post about art being a sanctuary really hit home for me, because I’ve been on a creative tear all month. I’ve posted a lot on this blog…and that is only the tip of the iceburg of projects I’ve got going now. What I realized after reading Sarah’s post is the extent to which I’ve been using stamping as a...
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